Still, the sound bite to Fox News has become part of a Gary Johnson video in which former Paul supporters sing Johnson’s praises. Paul was the Libertarians’ candidate for president in 1988, between two stints in Congress as a Republican.

Paul supporters are continuing to fight for power in the Republican Party, and the congressman’s son, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, has staked his future in the GOP and spoke to its convention last week.

“I remain very very skeptical of hearing anything that will change the course of history,” he told Bloomberg News. “There was no talk of the Federal Reserve. One of the engines of spending is militarism and empire and he enhanced. He was pushing it.”

Johnson served two terms as governor of New Mexico, as a Republican. He was briefly a candidate for the 2012 GOP nomination, but later sought and won the Libertarians’ nod. Johnson is an outspoken critic of the War on Drugs and advocates legalization of cannabis.

Billionaire oilman David Koch ran for vice president on the Libertarians’ 1980 ticket, but this year is spending and raising as much as $400 million to back Republican candidates.